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Kálf Kátr 26VII

Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Kálfr Hallsson, Kátrínardrápa 26’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 947-8.

Kálfr HallssonKátrínardrápa
252627

Riddari tók, sá er ræsis leiddi
ranns til myrkrs fyr göfgan svanna
eiginkván, af orðum Ságu
eiða linns að kasta heiðni.
Ýtir sagðiz aldar gætis
elgs sólbyrðis meyju helgri
gilliga vafðr í glæpum öllum:
‘guð Ísáks kenn mier að prísa’.

Riddari, sá er leiddi eiginkván ræsis til ranns myrkrs fyr göfgan svanna, tók að kasta heiðni af orðum {Ságu {eiða linns}}. {Ýtir {elgs sólbyrðis}} sagðiz helgri meyju {gætis aldar} gilliga vafðr í glæpum öllum: ‘kenn mier að prísa guð Ísáks’.

The knight, who led the wife of the king to the house of darkness before the noble woman, abandoned heathendom because of the words {of the Sága <goddess> {of the lands of the serpent}} [GOLD > WOMAN]. {The launcher {of the elk of the gunwale [lit. sun-board}} [SHIP > SEAFARER]] said to the holy maiden {of the guardian of the world} [= God] that he was thoroughly entangled in all crimes: ‘Teach me to praise the god of Isaac’.

Mss: 713(131), 399a-bˣ(15), 920ˣ(216r)

Editions: Skj AII, 521, Skj BII, 575-6, Skald II, 317, NN §§2764, 2958E, Kahle 1898, 72, 107, Sperber 1911, 49, 81.

Notes: [All]: Stanzas 26-8 are based upon a wordy exchange in the prose legend between Porphyry and Catherine in which he asks her to teach him how to gain eternal life and avoid all delusions of devils. He accepts Christianity along with two hundred other knights (Unger 1877, I, 412-13; Wolf 2003, 134).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Unger, C. R., ed. 1877. Heilagra manna søgur. Fortællinger og legender om hellige mænd og kvinder. 2 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Bentzen.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  5. Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
  6. Wolf, Kirsten, ed. 2003. Heilagra meyja sögur. Íslenzk trúarrit 1. Reykjavík: Bókmenntafræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands.
  7. Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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